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Laws, Constitution Unable to Curb Use of K-Word in South Africa?

"Racism has no place in our post-democratic South Africa," attorney Wayne Ncube has said. This comes after a woman was removed from a local flight and a police officer is set to face the Pretoria Magistrate's court for their use of the k-word, a racial slur which earned former real estate agent Vicki Momberg a two-year prison sentence after using it in a rant that went viral.

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